Word: shermans
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WHEN THE GRAND ARMY of the Republic and General Sherman perfected total war on the way to the beach, they executed a fundamental shift in friend-foe relations. The realization that whole societies and not just armies go to war made societies legitimate targets. Supply lines, economic resources (crops, farms, mines), communications networks--all of them helped the enemy, and they all needed to be cut off if the war was ever going...
...Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book...
...that a heterosexual man who has contracted HIV will often tell his wife and children he got it from a prostitute. But close to death, these same men will sometimes confide that they did have a homosexual experience. Or that they flirted, many years ago, with intravenous drugs. At Sherman Oaks Hospital in California, which has been caring for AIDS patients since 1980, the nurses are no longer surprised. "When a guy says he got it from a woman, we just nod," says a nurse. "It's probably not true, but that's the way most of them want...
Precinct 3: Fire House, Taylor Square (Garden and Sherman...
...network in a long-lagging Wednesday-night time slot. CBS has only three more episodes featuring Foxx. While replacing him will be difficult, since the show was tailor-made for Foxx, the network hopes to keep the series alive. One possibility: a new male lead, perhaps two-time star Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons and Amen), who already has a development deal with CBS. The strategy is risky. After the suicide of comedian Freddie Prinze in 1977 NBC replaced him with a child actor in Chico and the Man, and the network hit swiftly became an also...